Lost Tina Turner song from Private Dancer released for the first time
Share:
Song was left off the queen of rock and roll’s 1984 comeback album. A surprise treasure was unearthed from Tina Turner’s vaults: the previously unheard track, “Hot For You Baby”. Long-believed to have been lost, the song was recorded at Hollywood’s Capitol Studios and originally intended to be an album track on Turner’s fifth solo album, Private Dancer.
It was written by Australian musicians George Young and Harry Vanda, and produced by John Carter, who signed Turner to Capitol in spite of the label’s misgivings, and despite David Bowie telling executives that she was his favourite singer. Released in May 1984, Private Dancer propelled Turner back into the spotlight, following several difficult years in the wake of her divorce from her abusive husband and music partner Ike Turner.
The split had left her penniless, living off food stamps and playing cabaret shows to pay off her debts. Yet she learnt she still had fans in the R&B-obsessed UK, after The Rolling Stones invited her on their US tour and Rod Stewart asked her to play with him on Saturday Night Live.
Capitol would only pay for Turner to spend two weeks in the studio, where she recorded songs such as “What’s Love Got to Do With It”, which had previously been rejected by Cliff Richard and Bucks Fizz. The resulting album, Private Dancer, peaked at No 1 in the US and featured the hit singles “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” and “Better Be Good to Me”, earning her four Grammy Awards including Song of the Year.
-(2).jpeg?trim=122,0,122,0&quality=75&auto=webp&width=1000)
